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Scythe and the city : a social history of death in Shanghai /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henriot, Christian (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Death > Social aspects > China > Shanghai > History > 19th century.
Death > Social aspects > China > Shanghai > History > 20th century.
Shanghai (China) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Shanghai (China) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Scythe and the city : the measure of death
  • Guilds, charities, and the community management of death
  • Funeral companies and the commoditization of the dead body
  • A final resting place : from burial grounds to modern cemeteries
  • Foreign cemeteries and the colonial space of death
  • Invisible deaths, silent deaths
  • Funerals and the price of death
  • The cremated body : from social curse to political rule
  • The management of death under socialism.